I have this idea that you can use glamour and still have it represent something that matters.
I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.
The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.
I'm not a politically radical person. In fact, I'm much more interested in being radical aesthetically.
I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.
I'm trying to photograph an old offshore oil city that is lying in decay in the Caspian Sea, but I've been having a hard time getting there.
For those looking at me, meeting me for the first time, it is the body they see. I am labelled as disabled.
If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?
Stanley Kowalski: Tiger, tiger. Drop that bottle top. Drop it.
With the rise of the Internet, fashion did become part of the global entertainment industry in the last ten years, and will follow the digital evolution of the music or film industry.
Of course, my own political beliefs inform the ideas I come up with.
I am very pro-royal. Britain without them would be a sadder place.
I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.
Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.
At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.
Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.
Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.
I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall.
Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.
What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.
As I get older, the book projects are - liberating is one word, but they really are me.
